On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 14:00, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Bret Hughes wrote: > > > I don;t have an 8.0 machine to look at. Has redhat modified network > > startup scripts to slurp ntp servers from dhcp information? > > Yup. And the default configuration is now to ignore everything except > localhost, so every time dhclient runs, it picks up the NTP servers from > DHCP, then promptly ignores them. If you change ntp.conf but not > dhclient.conf, then your ntp.conf will be overwritten whenever your DHCP > lease is renewed. > > Basically, all my patch does is change "default ignore" to "default > nomodify," which is functional but safe. >
I hope you submitted the patch to bugzilla. This is pretty cool functionality if they can get it right. Does dhclient also place the ntpserver(s?) into /etc/ntp/step-tickers so that when ntp is started via the normal redhat init.d/ntpd script there will be something to run ntpdate against? This the beginnings of having enough reasons to look at upgrading. to 8.x. I have 42 machines in the field that are on three different networks served by dhcp and ntpd from the gateway and it is one of the things someone is apt to forget when a machine is replaced. It does not happen often, but often enough that I wrote a script that runs ntpq -p on each of them periodically from our central office to make sure they are in sync. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
